Sacramento County Biographies
EDWARD HEALEY
Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton
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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP.
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lives three and a half miles from Elk Grove and eighteen miles
from Sacramento. Mr. Healey owns fifty-seven acres of land; he was born in
England in 1826; remained until 1849; engaged in manufacturing and railroading;
he emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Massachusetts, where he
engaged in railroading; came to California via Cape Horn in 1850; followed
mining for about five years in El Dorado and Nevada Counties; settled in Colusa
County in 1855; moved to Sacramento County in 1856, where he now resides,
engaged in farming; in 1852 and '53 Mr. Healey visited the World's Fair at New
York. Married in 1853 Miss E. Killingsworth, a native of North Carolina; they
have two boys and three girls living. Land and improvements are worth about
$1,100. Post Office, Elk Grove.
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by
Thompson & West.